Day 10 to Byorgarfjuordhur

 Awoke to  a lovely crisp but sunny morning. Off to the seaside today.

First up was the walk to Hengifoss waterfall. This is a unique waterfall over a rock face with red strata

Starting off - mindful of the sheep

Heading up

A scenic rest stop

The lower falls with basalt columns

 First views of the main falls

The red bands clearly visible

How did the bands form?

Another photo of the columns on the alternate route down

Next stop was Skriouklauster historic site. It was the home of a famous writer

We settled for coffee and local food in the restaurant. Not the local food buffet but great local flatbread with smoked lamb and cakes.

Next it was a diversion to the colourful town of Seydisfjordour

To get there we drove over one of the typical one lane river crossing bridges

and over a high pass with views down to the village and past ski areas

The walkabout didn’t disappoint

Back over the pass and on to Borgarfjordur Eystri

Great scenery on the drive in

And some photogenic houses

Our accommodation for the night. Pretty austere from the outside. Modest inside but very clean and comfortable. Not quite what you might expect for the price thou. 

It is home to one of only remaining original sod clad fisherman’s houses in Iceland

Next a short drive out of town to the fishing harbour and a very accessible puffin colony

It looked pretty similar to other puffin encounters we’d had until the birds started coming in with their catch

Now, which one was my burrow?

Damn difficult!

I’ll have to explore

We had a buffet dinner at our hotel with great locally caught ocean catfish washed down with a local craft beer for Bob - Julie baulking at the $30 gin and tonic (the beer $15 for a 300ml bottle mind you). Iceland really lives up to its reputation of being super expensive.

Retired to our room about 9:30 pm with views of the surrounding mountains lit with sunset colours while lying on our bed in our room